Quote Originally Posted by 'Youngceo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=166889#pos t166889
In my experiences I had no chance of doing any heroics without a dedicated resto, as much as I would like to have 4 elementals it just aint gonna happen in heroics for awhile.

My tank aint at the defense cap yet but is decently geared, enough for heroics anyway, however he still needs constant heals, 4x LHW now and then just doesnt cut it, especially on boss fights where 3-4 hits and theres nothing left of you.

Also with some bosses you just cant afford to stop all dps and go healing for abit, especially with bosses like Trollgore who have a buff that stacks their damage over time, you need to dps them down and quick.
Not sure why you had no chances. And trollgore...Ive never wiped on him or lost a single character. I didn't even know he had a stacking buff - but this actually negates your entire point. Having 4 DPS will do more damage even if you have to stop occasionally to heal then having 1 resto that spams heals and 3 dps that never stop. This is the whole point of having 4 dps - faster damage and less focus on healing. I never use /stopcasting in my heals because I've never needed it, therefore I don't actually interrupt my DPS, I just insert key heals smoothly in between some dps spells - have not had a problem with this yet. Also, 4x LHW heals me to 100% full - generally I get healed for 4k+ per shaman, and most of the time I'm not down more than 16k health when I heal, so that brings me to full. 1 set of LHWs only takes 1.5s to cast, its NOT that big of an interruption.

As far as heroics, there are people that DO have resto shamans that can't finish gundrak or UK so I'm not sure why you'd say they're easy and other heroics would be required (this is not to the person I'm quoting this is to someone else that posted about that). Most of those other instances that have issues have nothing to do with not enough healing and are mostly about positioning, movement, mana efficiency, etc.

Like Multibocks says, its really preference. Having a resto shaman is gimp as hell for battlegrounds or any other pvp so I prefer to keep my 4 shamans elemental. It took me months to actually add a tank instead of just using 5 shamans.